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Sew Dolled Up: Make Felt Dolls and Their Fun, Fashionable Wardrobe with Fabric Scraps and Easy Hand Sewing

By: Boutique Sha

Translated by Namiji Hatsuse

Learn how to make adorable small dolls, perfect for a dollhouse, and all the outfits and accessories that go along with them. Includes patterns and 75 projects to make from inexpensive, cut felt using easy, hand-sewing techniques that are clearly illustrated in step-by-step instructions.

Stitched Paper Art for Kids: 22 Cheeky Pickle Sewing Projects

By: Ali Benyon

Turn your resident amateur sewist into a master of paper craft with Stitched Paper Art. Varied projects include headbands and necklaces, bookmarks and buntings, and picture frames and purses.

Fashion Designer

By Patricia Wooster

Starting with what it means to be a fashion designer, this book goes through the details of the job, how to become a fashion designer, what a future in fashion design would look like, and the lives of many famous designers.

Simply Sewing

By Judy Ann Sadler

This book is an introduction to the basics of sewing, including both hand and machine sewing ideas. It has lots of simple projects to get anybody started on sewing for fun.

Sewing School: 21 Projects Kids Will Love to Make
By: Amie Petronis Plumley and Andria Lisle

"Sewing School" is a helpful guide to sewing beginners, with tons of fun projects that teach necessary sewing skills. Starting with the basics, this book will even teach you how to thread needles and cut thread to the correct length.

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Review: Fowl Play

Fowl Play By Kristin O'Donnell Tubb New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2024. Fiction 277 pages. Still reeling from her beloved uncle's death, Chloe Alvarez is comforted and confused when at his last will and testament reading, Uncle Will gifts her his African Grey parrot, Charlie. Charlie has a robust vocabulary and loves to make Alexa requests for her favorite songs, but when she starts saying things like, "homicide," and "cyanide," Chloe becomes convinced that Uncle Will may have met his demise by murder instead of a genetic disease, as was previously thought. Ultimately, bringing in her brother, Grammy, and Uncle Frank (and of course Charlie,) Chloe's ragtag and adoring family support her search for answers ---going on stakeouts, engaging in fast pursuits, and searching for clues. But as the suspects stack up and the mystery grows, Chole will learn that the process of death and grieving is complicated, and in the end her Uncle Will's words that, ...

Review: Alice with a Why

Alice with a Why By Anna James New York: Penguin, 2026. Fiction. 240 pgs. In 1919, in the aftermath of the first World War, Alyce is living with her grandmother in the English countryside. Her grandmother, also named Alice, tells Alyce (with a y) stories from her childhood adventures in a wonderful land filled with white rabbits and mad hatters. Alyce doesn't really believe the silly stories, she just misses her father who was killed in the war. One day, Alyce receives a mysterious invitation to tea, and subsequently falls into a pond where she is transported to Wonderland. Her grandmother, of course, is that Alice. Alyce is prompted by the Mad Hatter, Dormouse, and March Hare to seek out the Time Being and put an end to the war between the Sun King and the Queen of the Moon. Thus begins Alyce's adventure through Wonderland. I have a certain soft spot for the original story of Alice in Wonderland. It is one of my particular favorites and I often have a hard time reading new int...

Review: Blood in the Water

Blood in the Water By Tiffany D. Jackson New York: Scholastic, 2025. Fiction. 255 pages. 12-year-old Kaylani McKinnon can't help but feel like a fish out of water. She's a Brooklyn girl spending her summer on Martha's Vineyard surrounded by wealthy family friends in their mansion. All she really wants is to stay home all summer where she her incarcerated father can easily reach her, and she can keep working to find ways to prove him innocent of fraud and embezzlement. Despite her protests, she finds herself on the island with the snooty granddaughters of her host. Soon after Kaylani's arrival, a popular teen boy is found murdered and she decides to conduct her own investigation. As she tries to discover what happened to Chadwick Cooper, Kaylani finds that not everything on Martha's Vineyard is as perfect as it appears. Thrillers for middle grade readers can be hard to find, but Tiffany D. Jackson succeeds in her first middle grade novel. A quick moving plot, tight d...

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